Michelle Tea famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I will meet you in the dirtiest city you can dream of. We will drink cocktails so sweet they pucker our cheeks, as we perch on cracked leather bar stools. I will buy you plates of calcium and protein and we will run through the streets in excellent danger.
-- Michelle Tea

#Running #Dream #Sweet
How do you make a girl know she's beautiful? What is the system for that, what do you show her, how do you give her a new set of eyes and turn her face back to the mirror?
-- Michelle Tea

#Beautiful #Girl #Eye
There is a huge difference between writing a book, which is a private activity I engage in with myself, and wanting to engage in overly intimate personal conversations with strangers, which I pretty much never want to do.
-- Michelle Tea

#Book #Writing #Differences
I drank some coffee and my outlook improved immensely. I was ready to write some poems and, I donâ€™t know, get drunk, run around, take my shirt off and get kicked out of someplace. You know, live a little.
-- Michelle Tea

#Running #Coffee #Writing
There are a lot of queers starved for entertainment from their own community.
-- Michelle Tea

#Community #Entertainment
Gwynn, she was always talking about wanting to be drunk and honestly I did want to encourage that, I wanted to go to a bar with her and let all the stuff sobriety pushed down be released so I could catch it in my palms and finally kiss her. She was just so sad. Melancholy was a fleshy wave permanently cresting on her face, she had to speak through it when she talked.
-- Michelle Tea

#Kissing #Talking #Drunk
...people like to say things like 'all work is prostitution'. Most work is exploitation, but most work is not prostitution. Prostitution is prostitution, a very specific sort of exploitation... And while I am doing literal corrections to flippant turns of phrase, the earth doesn't get raped. It gets mined and poisoned and blown up and depleted, it gets ruined, but it doesn't get raped.
-- Michelle Tea

#People #Phrases #Earth
The horror of knowing someone and living with them and even thinking you're lucky and then wham and now you know that every person is really two people and how can you ever know what the other half is up to.
-- Michelle Tea

#Thinking #Two #Knowing
Remember when i slept with my head in a puddle at your feet? It was humility, or atonement. later your ankle was a pillow and finally you pulled me up and in my sleep i placed your hand above my heart, like i forgot i didn't live there anymore
-- Michelle Tea

#Sleep #Humility #Heart
Maybe we could all take care of each other, I dreamed.
-- Michelle Tea

#Care #Take Care
You try to be good, to be good and loving and nice and not hard, not tough, a sweet nice girl, not ugly, not full of ugliness, but people make it impossible.
-- Michelle Tea

#Girl #Sweet #Nice
This is growing up, having to stomp out love, this is how people turn terrible.
-- Michelle Tea

#Growing Up #People #Terrible
it just breaks / a man's heart, watching / a girl so involved with her life, / without him like that.
-- Michelle Tea

#Girl #Heart #Men
i wanted to try things, everything, especially things that are illegal and have a faint whiff of glamour.
-- Michelle Tea

#Trying #Glamour #Illegal
Maybe if everyone walked around being in touch with each other's hidden pain it could work out and even be beautiful, but it doesn't feel safe to be the only compassionate person on the planet.
-- Michelle Tea

#Beautiful #Pain #Work Out
you are right where you should be / now act like it
-- Michelle Tea

#Should

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